Coming Soon! Big Channel Premiere Saturday 21st March, 9:05pm #StanleyBaker stars in PLAY OF THE MONTH: ROBINSON CRUSOE (1974) rarely seen dramatisation of the famous #DanielDefoe novel #TPTVsubtitles
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Coming Soon! Big Channel Premiere Saturday 21st March, 9:05pm #StanleyBaker stars in PLAY OF THE MONTH: ROBINSON CRUSOE (1974) rarely seen dramatisation of the famous #DanielDefoe novel #TPTVsubtitles
Une BD avant d'aller voter ? Robinson Crusoé, une splendide adaptation signée Christophe Gaultier réunie dans une non moins splendide édition intégrale prestige
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West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027.
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It’s based on English writer Daniel Defoe's 1719 book of the same name, which can be read for free here (archive.org/details/cu31...)
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Amy Wilcockson, Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print, The Review of English Studies, 2026;, hgag003, doi.org/10.1093/res/...
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DYK #DanielDefoe (d.1731) complained about husbands who locked up their wives in asylums? They’d rather avoid the difficulties of divorce & hold on to control of a wife’s #dowry! Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WomansRights
🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 Robinson Crusoe isn’t the whole story. 📚
Marc Mierowsky reveals the hidden, dangerous Daniel Defoe on History Rage — spy, propagandist, and political operator.
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🚨 THIS WEEK ON PATREON & APPLE 🚨 Daniel Defoe helped neutralise rebellion without firing a shot. 🧠📜
Marc Mierowsky explains how words and propaganda reshaped Scotland on History Rage.
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 Daniel Defoe was sending intelligence from Scotland straight to London. 🕵️♂️🏴
Marc Mierowsky reveals how espionage shaped the Union on History Rage.
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 Daniel Defoe helped map political Britain long before polling existed. 🗺️
Marc Mierowsky reveals how intelligence and propaganda worked in the 1700s.
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 How does a disgraced writer become a government agent? 🕵️♂️
Marc Mierowsky reveals Daniel Defoe’s secret political career on History Rage.
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Marc Mierowsky's new book tells the story of how writer Daniel Defoe helped England thwart plans for Scottish independence - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/n...
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 Daniel Defoe paid a brutal price for his words. ⚖️🪵
On History Rage, Marc Mierowsky explains how public punishment transformed Defoe from writer into political operator.
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The inspiration for one of my favourite childhood novels was rescued on #ThisDayInHistory in 1709. Scottish sailor #AlexanderSelkirk spent more than four years living alone on an island in the #SouthPacific. His ordeal inspired #RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe, published in 1719.
🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 Was Daniel Defoe really just a novelist? 📖❌
Marc Mierowsky tears apart the comforting myth and exposes Defoe as a political force shaping Britain itself.
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🏝 📖 #OTD in #History 2 Feb 1709, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, marooned on a desert island for four years and four months, was rescued by William Dampier. His amazing story reached #DanielDefoe and was a key inspiration for the popular early novel ROBINSON CRUSOE (1719).
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Daniel Defoe helped invent British political intelligence. 🕵️♂️
Marc Mierowsky reveals how espionage and propaganda shaped the Union.
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Daniel Defoe: novelist, spy, propagandist. 🕵️♂️📚
Marc Mierowsky exposes Defoe’s secret role in shaping Britain and the Union with Scotland.
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Mierowsky, Marc. A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence. Yale University Press, 2026.
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Cole, Lucinda. "The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities." Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Springer, 2025. 1-243.
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Deyab, Mohammad Shaaban, Asmaa Abdelsalam Elshikh, and Ebtihal Elshaikh. "Yet I Alive! Decision-Making during Pandemics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 27.4 (2025): 512-527.
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VANWAGONER, BENJAMIN D. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 207–11.
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DYK Richard Steele (d.1729) cofounder of the daily, “The Spectator”, published a three-volume, 1,500-page self-improvement manual in 1714 called “The Ladies Library” which was quite respectful of women. In 1719, #DanielDefoe opened his essay, “The Education of Women” with:
Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 19
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 19
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#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a
#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a
#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a
#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a
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Dorson, James. "Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project." To Be Continued–Forms of Narrative Continuation 89 (2025): 83.
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#OnThisDay - 6 December 2009, Tubswick, a Grade II listed house dating from c1752 and once leased by #DanielDefoe was gutted by fire.
Mentioned as a farm as far back as 1296, it took its name from Richard Tubbe, bailiff of Colchester 1296-7.
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